Chapter 2061: Chapter 688: Crisis Reveals Cowardice, Desperation Forges Courage

On the already crisis-ridden Black Flame Maw Position, the Twilights’ Servants released the Banquet of Thousands of Souls.

It’s not entirely clear what this thing does, but if it can make Nifytelli in Westerburg feel the Netherworld’s wrath and rage, it speaks volumes about its formidable nature.

In fact, this was indeed part of the plan.

Ever since the Blood Flag Wheel War began, the Wolf People have been charging relentlessly despite casualties. Although this is their typical combat posture, it doesn’t prevent those hiding in the shadows from fully exploiting it.

Using the rage and despair from deaths as a medium, they bring back souls that have entered another world into the material realm.

As long as the ritual of the spell continues to operate, these Spiritual Bodies will be driven to attack all life continuously. The opposition is absolute between the undead and living forms, and the resentful spirits awakened by this ritual lack any semblance of reason.

They will only obey the driver’s command.

Unless the ritual is destroyed or the driver killed, it will continue perpetually. Every creature that dies will also transform into a resentful spirit, until the last living entity within its effective range is tormented to death, leaving only a wasteland of death populated by resentful spirits.

The most vicious aspect of this ritual is that the resentful spirits do not disappear; they are trapped on the ravaged land, forming a kingdom of the dead until every Spiritual Body is purified.

Judging by its effective range, this is clearly a war-level Spiritual Energy ritual. When it takes effect, the resentful spirits rampage through the battlefield, not only siphoning away a portion of the life force of living beings upon contact but also leaving a curse of fear that surrounds the survivors’ minds.

For those less resolute, their will may collapse even before death arrives.

But the good news is, this thing doesn’t discriminate against allies.

Before the summoned resentful spirits swarmed into the subsequent defenses of Black Flame Maw, they first rampaged through the vast numbers of Gnolls and Ratman positions, leaving a “road of death” on the battleground with thousands of shouting resentful spirits.

The accumulation of the cold Spiritual Bodies further covers the corpses with pale frost and debris.

The compelling effect of the Spell of Fear caused mass chaos among the Gnolls and Ratmen on the broken positions, which was swiftly noticed and exploited by the players and NPCs surviving in the ruins, with players taking the lead in action.

Guided by posts on the forums, they started taking any NPC they could find and thrust forward, jumping into the nearest Ratman Tunnel and sprinting like mad all the way out of the position.

The Retinue Army disturbed by the Spell of Fear find it difficult to effectively block, and at that moment, the Grand Marshal Huggesen attacking the sixth position would hardly halt the advance of his great army because of the escape of a few rats.

The trapped players thus managed to save their own lives, but they still need to traverse the perilous Ratman Tunnel to truly secure their escape.

The rampage of the Banquet of Thousands of Souls is good news for the fragmented position area, but for the rear positions, it’s an unmitigated disaster.

The guard at the forefront on the sixth position encountered a frontal breakthrough from the attacking resentful spirits.

Their weapons can hardly harm the Spiritual Bodies, even heavily armored ones will be pierced by the cold spirits, the accompanying Soul Weakness is basically crippling upon a single hit, and the pain from being drained of life energy paired with the terrifying effect on a cognitive level could instantly disrupt the defense of the position.

But the Wolf People have been waiting!

As soon as the formation of the front Retinue Army is thrown into chaos, Huggesen uses the Wolf Blood Holy Sword to fiercely slash downward, immediately causing brutal Wolf People Formation Breakers swinging savage heavy Meteor Hammers to rush up and slaughter violently.

However, the tide of the Banquet of Thousands of Souls didn’t stop at the sixth position. They muddled the position and continued pressing forward, inciting death and chaos at the seventh and eighth positions before plunging into the rocks of the ninth position.

Spiritual Bodies are not impeded by these solid rocks.

They travel like there’s no one there, finally rushing into the hollow crypt in the core of the position after being activated for ten thirty-two seconds.

Ovg, already under immense pressure from holding back tens of thousands of undead assaults using the Silver Dwarf’s Relic, Gaia’s Whisper within the crypt to marshal the Power of the Earth, turned increasingly grim as he witnessed the joining of countless resentful spirits to the fray.

He knows he can use this turmoil as a chance to retreat, but he is also acutely aware that retreating at this moment would mean selling out the soldiers still resisting on the ground to the Wolf People.

The Silver Dwarfs are unequivocally part of the Camp of Order!

As the Supreme Lord, he dared not withdraw at this moment as it would certainly make him a criminal of the Black Flame Maw, moreover, the Mother Goddess had declared this mountain pass as the Sacred Land before going silent.

As the most devout priest of the Mother Goddess, this place is also the sacred ground the Silver Dwarfs would lay everything on the line to protect.

Thus, faced with the fear-invoking resentful spirits joining the battle, the response of the Silver Supreme Lord was not to retreat but to advance. Holding Gaia’s Whisper pendant high before him, the small, hunched figure of Ovg straightened his back.